{"id":190065,"date":"2026-02-23T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190065\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:25:08","slug":"damaged-cables-near-west-oakland-station-caused-transbay-tube-shutdown-bart-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190065\/","title":{"rendered":"Damaged cables near West Oakland Station caused Transbay Tube shutdown, BART says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s extended closure of the Transbay Tube was caused by a fire that damaged communication cables, Bay Area Rapid Transit officials say. <\/p>\n<p>The stoppage started a little after 4 p.m. Sunday. BART cited a loss of communications as the reason for the shutdown. <\/p>\n<p>Trains were turned back at the West Oakland and Embarcadero stations. BART put it bus bridges with AC Transit and SF Muni to try and give riders alternate options. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bart-transbay-tube.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"bart-transbay-tube.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Riders trying to catch the bus bridge at Salesforce Center on Sunday after the Transbay Tube shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Transbay Tube service remained stopped through Sunday night, with BART officials later saying that crews had found damaged cables near the West Oakland Station after a street-level fire. <\/p>\n<p>Exactly what started the fire is unclear, but BART says they did not cause it. <\/p>\n<p>BART service resumed as normal on all lines Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday&#8217;s extended closure of the Transbay Tube was caused by a fire that damaged communication cables, Bay Area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3767,143,145,144,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-190065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-bart","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news","12":"tag-san-francisco"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}